FNC's Yingst, CNN's Ward, NBC's Engel Report Despite Danger

Five years into his Fox News tenure, Trey Yingst is no stranger to covering Middle East conflict from the ground, according to TV Newser.

And now, the Jerusalem-based correspondent in the midst of covering Israel’s new war with terrorist militant organization Hamas.

The fighting in Israel has persisted more than three days after the Hamas terrorists breached the border from Gaza in a surprise, horrific attack on Israeli citizens. Government officials say the death toll in Israel has bypassed 800 as of Monday.

Additionally, at least 600 Palestinian civilians living in Gaza have been killed as a result of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) counterattack, per reports.

As for Yingst, he’s reporting from Yashdod, a city in southern Israel located 15-20 miles north of the Israel-Gaza border, on Monday. During a report, Yingst noticed black rocket fire emanating from a building only a few miles away.

Under rocket fire in Ashdod. 4,500+ rockets fired into southern and central Israel since Saturday. pic.twitter.com/TpcQxaMZwY

— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) October 9, 2023

The CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward Monday was reporting minutes from the Israel-Gaza border when a barrage of rockets suddenly flew past her and her team and into Gaza.

Ward ducked for cover, and when CNN News Central co-anchor John Berman formally checked in with her, she responded, “we just have had a massive barrage of rockets come in here not too far from us, so we have had to take shelter here by the roadside, we are just about five minutes away.”

.@clarissaward reports from just minutes away from the Israel-Gaza border in the aftermath of a fresh barrage of rockets: pic.twitter.com/BPV7RP9K5o

— CNN International PR (@cnnipr) October 9, 2023

Ward and her crew then got the “all-clear,” moved out of the ditch to a different position. Ward was given the all-clear to stand, and she finished her report on how Hamas militants came through the area to conduct their assault.

Longtime NBC News foreign correspondent Richard Engel was doing a hit for Morning Joe from Sderot, Israel, when he was shown crouching down for cover in light of the incoming mortar and possibly rocket fire towards Gaza.

“This is considered an active combat zone even though we are still inside Israeli territory,” he said.

.@RichardEngel and the NBC News crew takes cover from mortar fire in Israel near Gaza.
Richard and the team are safe. pic.twitter.com/VBkI5taJee

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 9, 2023

Engel added there are new reports that Hamas is sending more fighters into Israel through breaches in the border fencing. “There are roughly 30 breaches, according to a senior Israeli official, and most of them, 90% have been plugged up,” he said.